New World
Context:
New World is a pop-folk piece for classical guitar and vocals. The song describes wanting to leave a failing relationship and/or situation and escape to another city to star afresh. The guitar part revolves around often dissonant chords and folkish finger picking melodies, the guitar being in a very alternative tuning of:Â
F G# C G# A# c.
The use of alternate tunings andpicking patterns in this song are inspired by the works of John MArtyn, such as 'Couldn't Love You More' and 'May You Never'. The folk-esque picking pattern in the intro of the song is inspired by Math Rock/Midwest-Emo song 'Never Meant' by Band American Football.
I wanted to have a very 'live' sense to the recording of this track, however, I wished to use my zoom H2N recorder for this song, however the device failed when it came to recording time and so I feel the recording sounds a little thin, I am still very happy with how this song came out and I feel that the music is true to the lyrics.